The election saw the left-winger suffer the worst post-war defeat for Labour, but Corbynistas have been accusing Ms Kuenssberg of pro-Tory bias. This is partly due to an incident last week when she erroneously claimed Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s political aide had been assaulted as Labour activists protested outside a hospital. She reported the claim on Twitter, adding that is was based on testimony from an unnamed “senior Tory” source.

However, footage released later showed the claim to be wrong, sparking outrage online.

Ms Kuenssberg quickly deleted her earlier tweet and apologised for the mistake, but many Labour supporters took the events as evidence of bias. 

The journalist has suffered similar accusations and abuse for a number of years from people with a variety of political views, but it was especially bad from supporters of Mr Corbyn.

Now, her first ever report after becoming the corporation’s political editor in 2015 reveals what she really thought of Mr Corbyn after he was first elected leader of the Labour Party.

She claimed many of Mr Corbyn’s colleagues did not know him very despite his many years in Parliament and that he had spent his political career so far on the fringes of the party, often defying the whip. 

She wrote: “And it seems the assumptions are about to be broken again. 

“Not for Labour a leader who conforms to the rules it helped design – someone who talks Westminster’s language, has doggedly built a career based on party loyalty, and aspires to wide appeal – but a man, Jeremy Corbyn, who has made a life out of being an insurgent in his own party, defying the leadership and who many of his MP colleagues hardly even know.” 

It is certainly true that Mr Corbyn was a thorn in the side of the Labour leadership during much of his time as a backbencher.

Ms Kuennsberg’s time reporting on Brexit will be blown wide open tonight in BBC Two’s ‘The Brexit Storm Continues: Laura Kuenssberg’s Inside Story’.

Airing at 9pm, the show is a sequel to a similar documentary last year.

Ammar Kalia wrote in The Guardian: “Following on from the chaotic, Thick of It energy of the special the BBC’s political editor Laura Kuenssberg filmed last year on brexit, the saga continues with this second documentary on Boris Johnson’s government, his attempt to secure a deal and then the lead-up to the general election. 

“WIth the BBC impartiality increasingly being called into question, it is not only illuminating on the year’s political wranglings, but also Kuensbserg’s own intensive process.”

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Ms Kuenssberg joined the BBC in 2000 and started covering the politics beat in 2003.

She briefly defected to ITV in 2011, before turning to the BBC to work on Newsnight in 2014.

In 2015, she was made the political editor – and so the abuse aimed at Ms Kuenssberg is nothing new.

During the EU referendum in 2016, she was hissed at during a press conference as she tried to ask Mr Corbyn a question.

A petition calling for her to be sacked from the BBC had to be taken down in the same year, because it became a hub for misogynistic abuse aimed at the journalist.

While most of those signing the petition hosted by the campaign group 38 degrees, it was reportedly “hijacked” by Twitter and Facebook users who directed sexist language at Ms Kuenssberg.

In 2017, the threats and abuse got so bad for Ms Kuenssberg that the BBC hired a security detail to accompany her and she went up and down the country reporting on the election.

Her bodyguards also attended the four-day Autumn Labour Party conference with her later that year.

Speaking at a Jewish Care business lunch in November 2017, she said: “I didn’t aspire to have the finger pointed at me. 

“What they are trying to do is silence me.”

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